Dubai Shopping Festival 2010

By: Ethan Harry

The City of Merchants is finally ready with its gala Dubai Shopping Festival 2010 to indulge your shopping mania. This shopping extravaganza will last till 28 February, 2010. Sponsored by Dubai Duty Free, the festival beckons shoppers from across the globe with unbelievably low price tags for every conceivable item under the sun and even beyond. Dubai, an already exuberantly alive metropolis, turns into one of the busiest places on the planet. More than 2 million visitors grace this occasion and pump in over US$1 billion in retail spending.

This year round, shelling out Dh300 at the Deira City Centre or Mall of the Emirates might just fetch you a Dh2 million worth luxury sports car, Tuscan villa, or private yacht. Another magnanimous offer is the Lexus Mega Raffle dishing out prizes worth Dh16 million. Every day of the festival is a new window of opportunity for ticket holders who may win a Lexus LS 460 and a cash prize of Dh100,000. Besides, there are weekly prices to the tune of Dh400,000. Flights to Dubai are selling like hot cakes during this time. Who knows, you might just get lucky like so many others? Laser shows, fireworks, fashion shows, film festivals, and international theatre performances further add to the excitement.

Do not miss out on the souks (traditional bazaars dedicated to different items) of the Dubai Creek. Seasoned bargainers can pick up treasures for a steal at these souks. A walk through the Gold souk will reveal that Dubai truly lives up to its name, ‘City of Gold’. The narrow streets are filled with gold jewellery shops. The story duplicates itself at the Electronics Souk, with the difference that gold jewellery gets replaced with electronics items. To treat your sense of smell to aromatic wonders, head to the Spice Souk, or walk down the Fish Souk to watch a tantalising display of high heaps of fresh catch.

Those looking for carpets will be spoilt for choice at the Carpet Oasis. The area is a virtual sea of carpets displaying the cheapest and the costliest varieties from places as diverse as Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Turkey, and Iran. Besides carpets, one may pick traditional handicraft items like swords and curved Arabic daggers, Arabic coffee pots, silver Bedouin jewellery, inlaid walnut and rosewood furniture, cotton floor coverings (dhurries), marble goblets, and prayer beds.

In the unlikely scenario of getting sick with shopping, people can spend some quality family time at the DSF Family Desert Camp. The venue allows one to rough it out in tents and indulge in delightful activities like quad biking and camel and horse riding. Entertainment shows, an exclusive food court and barbecue facilities are sure to turn even the most puritanical individual into a gourmet. Children can have the time of their lives at an inflatable zone and kiddy ride zone.

This is arguably the best time to book your cheap flights to Dubai as you can treat yourself to scores of entertainment options like the Jazz Festival, Gulf Bike Festival 2010, and the 9th Traditional Poetry Forum under the Patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
About the Author
Experienced content writer and editor, Ethan Harry has been working with www.southalltravel.co.uk for 1 year. He is consultant and expert advisor on flights to Dubai and writing various tips and advices on holidays and travel industry. Visit http://ethanharry.blogspot.com/ for more information about him.

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